A/N: Christmas! Anyways, this was quite an interesting one.
(-I'M TERRIBLY SORRY FOR THE LATENESS!)
Christmas Party (Tails x Marine)
Requested by Dreadwing216
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"Merry Christmas, Sonic! And happy-!" His sentence came to an abrupt stop as he laid his eyes upon one of the guests, and Tails then spun around to face his 'older brother' with a shocked expression.
"What is he doing here?!" A large hand motioned for the self-proclaimed Doctor, who also happened to be the only human in the room. And the only person they still considered an enemy… Or at least Tails thought so, but now he was just? – sitting in Sonic's couch in Sonic's house and at Sonic's Christmas party…
…Wait.
"Are you serious?" Tails then asked, exhaustedly, and let out a loud sigh, while Sonic chuckled sheepishly. He almost looked a bit embarrassed as he then said,
"It's Christmas, Tails. Poor guy sits in his lair all days a year, so I thought-"
"-you thought that you should be the hero once again, yeah, yeah." Tails shook his head, a motion which was almost scary when taking his Werefox form into account. He wore a red scarf with reindeer decorations – it looked festive – and under his arm he had tucked several presents.
-One of the perks of this strange transformation – he could carry almost anything like this.
Sonic shrugged, and Tails then handed over a medium-sized package to him, decorated with blue ribbons. Sonic took it with a grin, produced a package from somewhere behind his back, which he then handed over to Tails.
"Merry Christmas, Tails!" He grinned, and began to unwrap his present.
"Merry Christmas, you too…"
After several pieces of Christmas cake, Tails had then found his way into a quiet, and surprisingly, undisturbed corner of the room. He just stood there for a while, observing the crowd of guests circling around in the room, chatting and eating and drinking. Clad in red and white, green, black and deep blue, red ribbons dusted with glitter like snow, and with warm scarves and boots.
The Chaotix were here – even former members like Ray and Mighty – and Cream and her family. Blaze and Silver were sitting on a couch, talking, and Rouge, Omega and Shadow seemed to be playing cards at a table. Big and Froggy were talking to Amy, and Sonic had sauntered over to Eggman, who still looked rather misplaced here.
Wave was teasing Knuckles it seemed, and Storm was chewing on a piece of cake, while Jet was sitting grumpily on a couch all by himself. Cheese and Chocola, both with red little party hats, were playing some kind of tag in the air, and…
…Hmmm. Was there someone that he had not-
"Crikey Tails! You look all horrendously cool like that! What did ya do to get so poofy?"
Oh
He turned around and – yes, it was her indeed, Marine the Raccoon in all her glory. With her usual ponytails along with a red glittery party hat, she stood there, grinning and with a half-full glass in her hand. Tails suddenly felt like he did not know what to do with his unnaturally large arms, so he ended up crossing them behind his back. Maybe not a very smart choice…
Anyways, he then greeted her politely, "Hello Marine. And merry Christmas!"
"Merry Christmas, yeah… time passes so quick." Marine then laughed, and shook her glass so that the beverage swirled around in it. Tails was not sure what to respond to that with. He glanced away at the crowd, and then back at Marine again.
"…So how's your world doing?" He then asked. And after that, Marine began a mesmerising – though he wasn't sure how much of it was actually true – tale, of what she had been up to lately, including, but not limited to, pirates, labyrinths, gemstones, faraway islands, tsunamis, flying lions and a prince, who Tails somehow perceived as a big douche…
"Wa-ait! Look, look, look…" Sonic raised one eyebrow, but looked at where Amy was pointing anyway. Tails… and Marine… underneath a… mistletoe?
Wait… mistletoe…
Sonic's face scrunched up with a grin. "Seriously? Have they seen it yet or-" Amy shook her head, grinning she too. Rouge also seemed to have noticed from the other end of the room, and she nudged an irritated Knuckles in the side and pointed at the unsuspecting fox and raccoon… And then Cream and Vanilla saw it…
…And yeah, long story short, but soon everyone had noticed except, of course, Tails and Marine. The raccoon exclaimed something, and then they both laughed, and the gang all just watched… And then Tails turned around to walk away, and stop, stop, stop-
"Tails!" Sonic exclaimed, rushing towards him. "Stop, stop, stop, don't move!"
"What?" Tails asked. Then he noticed how everyone was staring at him, and at something above his head… and simultaneously both his and Marine's gaze turned upwards, saw the red and green mistletoe dangling innocently from a lightbulb right above them…
…"No. No, no, no, no, no!" Tails held up his hands and shook his head violently. Some of the girls snickered, and Marine… looked like she tried to recall what a mistletoe was. And Sonic just grinned evilly, and said,
"Yes, yes, yes! You can't leave without sharing a kiss!" Sonic had a sneaking suspicion that Tails would take revenge later by pushing him under a mistletoe with Amy, but for now he could ignore that. Tails' embarrassed expression was just priceless, by the way…
"Wait what? This is so totally unawesome!" Marine had finally caught up with the situation, it seemed. "Like, I'm sure Tails is a bad kisser and everything!"
…What?!
"Wait what-" Tails whipped around to look at Marine who just shrugged. The others were laughing in the background, with Sonic leaning against a wall for support. Shadow muttered something best translated as 'how immature' and Charmy… was digging in a bag in the corner?
…Okay, actually, he didn't care what the others were doing, the important thing right now, was that he was not going to kiss her! No way in hell, and yes, he was going to say just that right now-
"I'm not a bad kisser!"
…That came out wrong, is an understatement.
Sonic grinned again, eyes twinkling with mischief. "Oh? Well then prove it!" Encouraging cheers were heard throughout the room, and Vanilla shook her head with a tired smile when Cream tried to ask what was going on. Tails felt his cheeks heat up in embarrassment again – oh dear chaos why did he say that – and no, no, no – they were snickering again and what was Marine even-
The poor fox turned around to look at Marine again, who just… okay why was he even bothering – she just looked at him, and freaking wiggled with her eyebrows at him.
..."Well?" Was it Rouge or Sonic who said that? Silver? Vector? Just…
"FINE! I'll do it already, just-!" Tails shouted angrily, and a few of his friends stepped backwards slightly. Marine shrugged, and Tails… wondered how he was even supposed to… urgh, kiss her.
She took a step closer, and he heard someone snicker again. Oh chaos why…
And then he just took the last few steps up to her, leant down and pressed his lips against Marine's. Was he a good kisser or not? Well, he certainly didn't know, but Marine certainly was a good one. Unconsciously shifting closer, the heat of his cheeks, her breathing against his lips…
Click
A brief flash of light.
Tails and Marine promptly broke the kiss, spinning around to look at… Charmy. With a camera.
A look of horror and embarrassment came over Tails' features, as he realised what had happened. Charmy… took a picture… of him and Marine. Kissing… Okay, screw embarrassment, he was fucking pissed.
Tails growled, and clenched his fists, which coincidentally happened to have very long and sharp claws. And Charmy happened to notice that… And then Marine swore loudly, and seconds later Charmy was fleeing the room, camera in hand.
And then everyone began shouting or laughing and Vector swore and Vanilla tried to calm everyone down, and Tails and Marine chased after Charmy, both promising revenge. And Sonic laughed and Shadow was annoyed and Amy had mysteriously gotten away with taking a video of the whole event, and Charmy crashed out through the door outside, where it was pitch-black save for the bushes decorated with Christmas-lights.
And Tails and Marine chased him outside, with Sonic and Knuckles cheering in the doorway, and with Amy filming everything from the kitchen window…
Snow crunched under their feet, and Charmy was giggling breathlessly, still flying in a mix of horror and excitement, almost crashing into several bushes in his mad escape. Snow whirled through the darkness, and Tails growled again.
Damn bee! If those pictures – if he…
Marine then shouted angrily, "Get back here, buzz boy!"
Charmy had flown in a circle around a bush, and was almost completely out of breath. He still had the camera. And Marine had snowballs. And Tails had claws, so…
"I'll tear you into shreds, Charmy!"
